Whistleblowing

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    Working Practices Andstrategies in Health and Social Care Setting

    Effective communication • Record-keeping Policy Risks Assessments • Confidentiality Policy Recruitment procedures • Data Protection Policy Induction • Protection of Vulnerable Adults Policy Training • Whistleblowing Policy Codes of conduct • Care plans – Person Centred Care Reflective practice • Anti – discriminatory / Anti – oppressive practice • Organisations safeguarding policy & procedures Each resident is assessed before arriving

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    You Decide

    I am an employee at Wooden which is a large Factory in Littlebury and I have been presented with a difficult decision. One of my co-workers has told me about the ongoing situation regarding the enormous amount of wood dust at the factory and how she saw three quick sparks in the air while she was operating her machine. Now, she is new at the factory and has been working at the factory for only two weeks which makes her afraid to speak up about the situation with anyone past the Section Manager which

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    Amgen

    September 13, 2015 Amgen Whistleblowing Case ACCT 530 Ethical Obligations and Decision Making in Accounting Lisa Moreaux Amgen Inc. is a pharmaceutical company based out of California. In 2009, there were 15 states that filed lawsuits against the company for accusations of participating in Medicaid kickback schemes. In 2007, Amgen’s board of directors discovered a potential problem with the dealings of post-market complaints regarding their drugs. Amgen was out to push the sale of

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    Financial Statement Fraud

    Financial Statement Fraud ACCT 710: Assignment 6-2 Shannon Baxley David Welch September 24, 2011 Table of Contents Abstract………………………………………………………………………………………3 Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………..3 Literature Reviews……………………………………………………………………………5 Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………………..16 References…………………………………………………………………………………...18 Abstract This paper describes financial statement fraud (FSF) and how it may occur within companies. The reason of this study was to research

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    The "Protected Closure Act, 26 of 2000". (South African Content)

    Executive Summary Whistle blowing is when an employee raises a concern about wrongdoing or malpractice in the workplace that has a public interest aspect to it. Persons who act as whistle blowers are often subjected to retaliation by their employers. Therefore it became important to protect whistle blowers by introducing the Disclosure Protection Act (Act 26 of 2000). The purpose is to provide procedures and offer protection to employees against organisational detriment. Even though the Act intends

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    Legal

    Assignment 1: Whistleblowing and Sarbanes-Oxley The key characteristics of a whistle-blower are honesty and fearlessness. Whistle-blowing requires a person to have tenacity and a fighting spirit because those who take the action to Whistleblowing are in for a long, tough road. Whistle-blowers are often put under public scrutiny, shunned by co-workers and communities, and go through long strenuous legal battles before seeing any justice served. Whistleblowers also must combat retaliation

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    Whistle Blowing

    former employer of an organization to disclose what she or he believes to be wrong doing sin or by the organization (James 1995) In Whistleblowing, raising concerns and speaking up are all phrases which describe disclosing information to an employer or where appropriate a regulator, police or the media about malpractice, wrongdoing or a risk to safety. Whistleblowing is providing a solution to resolve such situations: it opens nonexistent or hidden information sources and channels. The reasons for

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    Enron Scandal

    awkward situations, such as fear of the manager's retaliation, fear to be treat as a betrayer by the workmates, unwilling to be a snitch and so on. To fix these situations and finally enhance financial report, we should first establish a company's whistleblowing culture, that means encourage employee to investigate and report flaws they find and give reward instead of punishment, also, the management need to demonstrate a strong will to commit the whistleblow policy, promptly investigate the report and

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    Assignment 2

    Draft Assignment 2: Ethics and Corporate Responsibility in the Workplace and the World Stakeholders:- The Stakeholders in this case are:- 1. PharmaCARE 2. PAC 3. The People and Government of Colberia 4. Executives of the PharmaCARE 5. PharmaCARE Clients Worldwide 6. FDA 7. OSHA 8. MR Alen Jones 9. CompCARE and Employees 10. Doctors and Hospitals who were dealing with CompCARE 11. Donna, Tom and Ayesha 12. Wellco The Ethics of PharmaCARE in Colberia:-

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    Employment at Will

    Assignment 1: Employment-At-Will Doctrine Employment-at-will is the current employment practice performed in the United States. Employment-at-will states that an employer can terminate an employee for any reason; good, bad or indifferent. It also allows the employee to leave the employment of the company at any time and for any reason. Over the years following the adoption of the employment-at-will doctrine, there have been some exceptions applied that employers must follow when it comes to terminating

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